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South Texas | You need light weight and big low pressure tires. You need it to float to not cut ruts. A CJ5 is about 3000 lbs, looks like your gator is about 1800 lbs. A suzuki samurai is about 2100 lbs. So as an offroad machine I’d start with a samurai and put atv tires on it. Look at the tread on even an all terrain atv tire and think about how agressive that is vs lt mud tires.
So take samurai, remove unnecessary stuff, make the doors quick removable so can run them in the winter. Decide if you want a lift or is the ease of getting in and out at stock height more important. Looks like stock tires were 205/70r15 so about 27x8. So you could put something like itp mud lite htr in 27x11-14 on the back and 27x9-14 on the front with no lift and probably go more places than the gator with just a little more ruts. Or lift it a little for a bigger tire, I think just a 2” shackle lift will get you up to a 29” tire, which will probably get you the same ground pressure as your gator. Or put the axles under the springs and 31” tires, but now you've raised the seat height about 7”.
The other neat thing with samurais is you can get lower gears for the transfer case, which lowers both the low range and the high range.
Edited by eight 8/12/2020 07:29
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Building a Cj5 for farming
